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No. 623,487. Patented Apr. 18, I899.

- A. MEIER.

BINDER FOR PAMPHLETS OR THE LIKE.

(Application filed Dec. 30, 1897.)

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ADOLPl-I MEIER, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

BlNDER FOR PAMPHLETS OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATXON forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,487; dated April18, 1899.

Application filed December 80, 1897- $arial No. 664,541. (No model.)

To aZl whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH MEIER, a citizen of the Republic of France,residing at Vienna, in the Province of Lower Austria, in the Empire ofAustriaI-Iungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBinders for Pamphlets or the Like; and I do hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification, and which has been patented in Belgium, by Patent No.126,814, dated March 31, 1897; in Austria, by Patent No. l7/1,374, datedApril 19, 1897, andin France, by Patent No. 264,766, dated June 15,1897.

This invention has for its object to provide a new and improved binderfor filing newspapers, pamphlets, and the like; and to accomplish thisobject my invention consists in the'construction and arrangement ofparts hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the binder open. asection along 00 m, Fig. 1. View of the binder-covers. Fig. 4: is a viewlike Fig. 8, showing the device released for the removal or addition ofpamphlets. Fig. 5 shows a modified form of binder. Fig. 6 is a sectionalong 11 y, Fig. 5.

The binder is shown comprising the covers a with back d. The back isprovided with eyes or hinge portions 19 for the support of the hinge-roda, carrying bars I). An intermediate bar b is shown in Fig. 1; but thiscan be omitted, as seen in Fig. 5, where only end bars I) are shown.These swinging bars 17, as seen in Fig. at, lie back of the pamphlet 0or outside the latter, so as not to pierce or puncture the same. Intothe crease of the paper or pamphlet 0 is placed a fastening which, beingconnected to the bars, secures the pamphlet and bars together. Thisfastening can consist of a flexible strand, such as a cord or thread 6,Fig. 1, which has one end securely tied'or fastened to a bar I), andwhich thread is then run from one end bar I) through Fig. 2 is Fig. 3 isan edge the crease of pamphlet o to the other end bar I), and beinglooped or secured to such bars holds the pamphlet in place. In case ofan intermediate bar I) the thread by needlefis passed through the backof the pamphlet about the intermediate bar and. .returned through suchback into the crease and run to the next bar I). The pamphlet havingbeen connected with the bars I) at the ends of the hinge-rod a, theextremities of the bars 1) are engaged with engaging or holding devices,such as catches IL connected with the cover 0.

In place of thread 6 a wire h, Fig. 5, can be laid into the crease ofthe pamphlet, the eyes 2, Fig. 6, of this wire being slipped over thebars 1), whose free ends are then locked by the catches a, asstated. Thewire 71 is shown in Figs. 5 and 6 with loops Z, which pierce or projectthrough the crease and have a fastening, such as a thread or wire m,slipped therethrough; but these loops Z can be omitted. By thisarrangement the pamphlet can be opened out flat, as seen in Figs. 1, 8and 5, so as to be fully exposed or have its interior readily inspected.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A binder for pamphlets and the like, consistin g of two fiat coversconnected by a back, journal-eyes secured to one side of the back, arectilinear hing-rod journaled in said eyes and bent at right angles atits opposite ends to provide arms which swing when the hingerod isturned axially in the journal-eyes, catches secured to the side of theback opposite the'side to which the journal-eyes are secured andarranged to detachably engage and hold the extremities of said swingingarms, and a fastening passing through the crease of the pamphlet'atdifferent points and looped at its end portions around the swingingarms, substantially as described.

2. A binder for pamphlets and the like, consisting of two flat coversconnected by a back, journal-eyes secured to one side of the back, -arectilinear hinge-rod journaled in said eyes and bent at right angles atits opposite ends to provide arms which swing when the hinge-rod isturned axially in the journal-eyes, catches secured to the side of theback opposite the side to which the journal-eyes are secured andarranged to de- In testimony whereof I affix my signature taehztblyengage and hold the extremities of in presence of two witnesses.

said swinging arms, and a flexible strand 7 1 passing through the creaseof the pamphlet ADOLPH I at different points and looped at its end por-Vitnesses: tionsaroundtheswingingarms,substantially HENRY C. CARPENTER,

as described. CHAS. E. CARPENTER.

